It might be that we know a language that originally didn’t have personal pronouns: Pirahã. And a culture with a high value on no-coercion, which means that expectations of conforming are absent. There is an aspect of consciousness—the awareness of the difference between expected and actual behaviors—that might just not develop in such a context.
It might be that we know a language that originally didn’t have personal pronouns: Pirahã. And a culture with a high value on no-coercion, which means that expectations of conforming are absent. There is an aspect of consciousness—the awareness of the difference between expected and actual behaviors—that might just not develop in such a context.